Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, was a reluctant recruit into the semiconductor business. Julius Blank, another Fairchild co-founder, is quoted by Charlie Sporck in his book SPINOFF as saying that an early recruit to Shockley Semiconductor, Dean Knapic (incidentally the first Silicon Valley spin-off leaving Shockley to found …
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